Sir Henry Stanley, Brits ontdekkingsreiziger, penning geslagen op last van de raad, de Royal Geographic Society en de Kamer van Koophandel van Antwerpen

Sir Henry Stanley, Brits ontdekkingsreiziger, penning geslagen op last van de raad, de Royal Geographic Society en de Kamer van Koophandel van Antwerpen

NG-186

Bronzen penning. Voorzijde: gekroond wapenschild van Antwerpen, omhangen met bladerloof, geflankeerd door half naakte man en vrouw met knots over schouder binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: opschrift onder stralende ster binnen lauwerkrans en omschrift.

• signature: ‘F. BAETES . FEC.’
• inscription: ‘TO HENRY STANLEY APRIL 1890’
• inscription: ‘STAD ANTWERPEN’
• circumscription: ‘THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL - THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY - AND THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF ANTWERP’

Francois Ignace Baetes, Antwerp

1890

diameter 6.7 cm x weight 1378 g

1890-04

Public domain

…; first recorded in the museum, 1951.

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